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Cuban First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura met in this capital with Cyprus President Demetris Christofias, and Paraguay's President-Elect Fernando Lugo.

The exquisite sensitivity and humor of circus performance was brought to Havana’s Mella Theater by Brazil’s Udi Grudi Comic Musical Theater.

Last week, Cuban pianist Robertico Carcasses celebrated five years at the helm of the Interactivo project that mixes jazz, rock and rap; for which he deserves to be called a pioneer of timba-funk.

The publication Chilanguía, from the Cultural Secretary of Mexico City, highlighted the intense life of the José Martí Cultural Center from this capital during its 32 years of existence.

The version for the big screen of the novel "El amor en los tiempos del colera" (Love in Times of Cholera) by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1982 Nobel Literature Prize, attracts the attention of film buffs in Havana.

The meeting will be attended by some 250 delegates from Cuba and Latin American and European countries.

The famous choreographer and Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso will receive the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts from the Spanish Council of Ministers, which every year awards personalities or entities that contribute to the promotion and spreading of art, culture and artistic heritage.

First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura heads the Cuban delegation that will participate in the Fifth Latin America-Caribbean-European Union Summit that will take place on Friday and Saturday in Lima, Peru.

Cuban Radio achieved six awards at the competition called every year by the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) to stimulate the best productions of that media in the region.

The XII Edition of Barriocuento 2008 will last until next Sunday. The venues of the event will be the Casa de Africa and Casa de la Obra Pía, in Old Havana.

Alarcón added, “We have to really achieve a quantitative and qualitative leap in food production; a leap like those that are remembered for all eternity. In our case, it must represent a great challenge to human capacity, organization, creativeness and responsibility of all the people who have something to do with food security.”

A meeting in solidarity with the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in the U.S. was held in Sydney, the capital of Australia, by scholars and members of friendship and political organizations.

Ricardo Alarcón, president of the Cuban Parliament, attended the meeting in the International Institute of Journalism José Martí, where they pay homage to who represents the perseverance in the exercise of writing about the truth and who was the last reporter murdered in Cuba, victim of the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

The director of U.S Project Censored, Peter Philips, is in Cuba attending a three-day conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the murder in Havana of Ecuadorian Journalist Carlos Bastidas and Freedom of the Press Day, an event called by UNESCO.

The Cuban Grand Master (GM) Jesús Nogueiras defeated his countryman Lázaro Bruzón, and is included among the leaders of the Elite group of the Capablanca Chess Tournament, underway in Havana.